Report: Apple seeks to hire former Google employees for help with its mapping app

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24 Sep 2012, 10:31posted on

According to a report, Apple is actively looking to hire former Google employees to help repair its ailing maps application in iOS 6; the Cupertino based tech giant is looking for those who have experience working on Google Maps...

Most companies when introducing a new product, tend to ensure basic functionality on first releases, they then tend to add on the fancy stuff in an organic way, a piece at a time ensuring it all works in harmony. Apple however, painted themselves into a corner by booting out Google Maps, they needed something that at least had something fancy and new to justify denying their users Google Maps.
This has lead to lots of glitzy for show add ons like "fly over views" , before they had time to try and perfect basic mapping functionality. Thus making the App itself, buggy as hell and Apple steam rolling a unmarket ready app to it's end consumers.
An ethical solution would have been to restore Google Maps and delay their own App release until it was at least semi market ready.
Instead I am waiting for the first lemming to drive off a cliff and Apple to come out and say "you're steering it wrong!"

Why not take a license on Nokia maps like Microsoft did. They have the best smartphone navigation data and program. If they can port Nokia maps to meego-harmattan and Windows Phone then it shouldn't be a problem to port it to iOS or ANdroid for that matter. Particularly since Harmattan is also linux based like Android and linux is a lot like unix (iOS).

Be smart and for once really consider consumers instead of YOUR wallets.

I f**king hate these stupid corporations. Instead of working together and license the best bits from each other the proper way and diversify through real innovation, they do nothing else than to piss us off. And we are supposed to buy their crap? I urge EVERY consumer to boycot ALL of them in 2012/2013 and to NOT buy a new model smartphone (whatever they had planned).

on the other other hand, i stop feeling bad for any apple customer that knows about the foxconn bullcrap and still buys their product. If they know they are supporting suicidal working conditions, then they deserve more than "apple maps".

I would say that its dishonor from apple. Apple you can make it without Google former employees, if not so, please agrees that you don’t have good developer so far, who can help you to win Google Map. People (???) are waiting for your classic mobile by design and look. Even if you say, this is the place in US. People would blindly agree. Lol. People had a thought no one can beat Apple. This is absolutely wrong

I am NOT saying Android is better than apple. But they are making better than you Apple. For ex: When we talk about Call reject with message feature, I could see this feature in Symbian OS in 2004 itself. Both apple and Google is revamping the existing features. I don’t know where the patent issue comes here…

I still have few OPEN (Hope many of us have the same) questions about patent/feature, who introduced the below.

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